Subj : Re: ansi art software lin
To   : hollowone
From : fusion
Date : Thu Oct 09 2025 13:13:00

On 09 Oct 2025, hollowone said the following...
 
 ho>  bb> Ncurses is an interesting interface with ANSI. Different terminal
 ho>  bb> emulaters show the characters and colors in a different way, and
 ho>  bb> sometimes the ESC key doesn't work, so I have to use 'ctrl + [' .
 ho> 
 ho> Different question, Is Midnight Commander relying on NCurses? I found it
 ho> very unstable under iTerm2 on MacOS. lot of CTRL+L to refresh the damn
 ho> thing.
 ho> 
 ho> I was always blaming Ncurses for that as I found also some different
 ho> apps that rely on it and are not always compatible with my still
 ho> favorite terminal emulator

the entire purpose of ncurses (besides just making it easier to write textmode apps) is to ask terminfo/termcap how to manage your screen so it works on a wide variety of terminals

that that's gotten messed up is either annoying from the distro side (so i guess apple?) or annoying because you broke it somehow? haha

i kid i kid.. but really, that's a story as old as *nix itself :)

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